#victorian ridiculousness

[drieddpetals]

i just want to remind everyone that, since the grishaverse is kinda sorta based on the victorian era, and since wealthy victorian families dressed their toddlers (girls or boys) in dresses, and wylan was very wealthy growing up, there are definitely family portraits in existence of baby wylan wearing one of those goofy ass victorian baby dresses

[gaywizardzone]

images unrelated to each other besides that they're both kanda and lena. i keep making jokes about how they have the bond of people who met in a particularly unpleasant pediatric psych ward.

[bull-shit-suji]

not to like wax poetic about the literary nuances of Black Fucking Butler but i feel i need to point out how insanely campy it is. oh okay cool the butler is throwing butter knives at people with guns and winning. we're battling undertaker's zombie army by starting a boy band (we actually got the idea from the ZOMBIES' boy band). theres a curry making competition and its so important it needs an entire volume and a continuing motif dedicated to it. the Grim Reaper Death Gods are all cornballs with gardening sheers. the contradiction. the unintended irony.

i think the manga is like. toeing the line of camp. like its silly yet takes itself so seriously but its not too silly. my immersion is not broken by the silliness. but the anime is uncharted levels of camp. what the Hell was going on with pluto. you're gonna look me in the eye and tell me the phantomhives own a fifty foot dog thing and no one has noticed. simply one hell of a deer. ice skating. theres opium in funtom candy. the queen of england is maybe a little girl. speaking of which, the city of london just burned down. yeah the whole thing. the fifty foot dog was there too.

it's so ridiculously out of left field and the fact that none of the characters seem to notice or care feels like being gaslit. camp so visceral it's causing psychic damage. i am constantly begging the narrative to break character just once and acknowledge its silliness but doing so would negate the lack of awareness that makes it camp. its dated and timeless. an absolute milestone in camp history.

[marietheran]

reading AITAs to do with abortion is so painful because the question will be "Am I in the wrong for pressuring my 16yo daughter to get an abortion?" and the answers will all be "No, of course no one can expect you not to burden the girl with this for the rest of her life because you feel her child will be a burden on you" and "Tell her horror stories about pregnancy and being a single mother; that'll frighten her into compliance 😊💖😚"

[kazz-brekker]

i'm glad the todd in the shadows video debunked james somerton's analysis of the 1992 dracula movie being faithful to the original book as total bullshit because while reading dracula in my victorian literature class in college, despite the fact that no one there had actually seen the movie, my professor gave us an impromptu rant about how much she hates that movie for adding the mina/dracula romance and removing all the homoerotic subtext. so the idea that someone pitching himself as a queer video essay youtuber was making that claim is personally very aggravating to me.

[clowningaroundmars]

my absolute fave thing to read in punkflower fics is lovesick puppy hobie brown

cool-as-a-cucumber hobie overthinking miles' every move, leaving lingering touches on him, longing glances thrown his way

certified BAMF hobie hanging by a doorway or window just a second too long before leaving miles

"skinny-hot" hobie refusing to believe someone as ✨️cool✨️ as miles would be into someone like him

badass punk hobie just yearning and pining and practically draping himself all over miles in desperate attempts but then pulling back all scared when anyone even hints that they should get together

god, i need pining lovesick loser hobie like AIR rn 😭

[ludoka]

*Gasp* Henry Jekyll from Monster High became a monster to escape the suffocating human society!

[capn-twitchery]

"#POINTS i know those fonts!!!!!!!"

im stealing them!! mine now >>>:3c

seriously tho ty for them <3 saved me from being indecisive on dafonts or whatever for like an hour lmao

HA I KNEW IT--but of course, i got you 😎

(i knew that inadvisable amount of time i spent collecting historic-adjacent stuff for my masters project that i proceeded to not use 50% wasn't wasted-)

[1o1percentmilk]

does anyone know if we have pining today

[wildsaltair]

[dontwanderoff]

in the wise words of one of my students, its fri-yay

[skyriderwednesday]

This sketch is entitled 'Gregson and Lestrade have questions...'

[aliensmoothie]

i am SO glad people are talking about the character creator stuff because when i started playing i was SHOCKED how limited the options were . like i went in expecting wayyyyyyy more control over character creation than they gave

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

I'm making a vaguely late victorian/edwardian-ish petticoat and it's the first time I'm making something by machine and holy shit y'all this is going SO fast.

but also not fast enough.

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

Of all the potential Victorian words of endearment, they had to use "girlfriend" 🙃

[hsifklim]

I SWEAR TO YOU SOMEBODY DID AND IT WAS ON HERE! If I remember correctly it was a comment under an Aster "redesign" that was basically just them covering his legs because they claimed some nonsense like "oh this is so much better you don't need bare legs to be sexy" or smth among those lines (I bet you could find the post in the Aster tag, there's not much content here anyway) and then this commenter was like "thank you for this, I cannot being myself to sexualise Aster and Garu they're my babies" and I was BRO WHAT ARE YALL ON THIS IS A SEX GAME 😭

Oh my fucking god 😭 They are... already sexualized. They were made to be sexualized. They are literally having sex. On screen, fully uncensored. Garu is literally walking around with his entire asscrack on display. Why are they playing the sex porn game if they don't want the goddamned porn characters to be sexualized? What on god's fucking green earth